[mythtv-users] WARNING: ***Pulse Audio is running!!!!***

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/27/2010 11:43, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Can someone please explain the significance of the following warning
> and what if anything I need to do to fix it?
> 	2010-01-27 11:34:00.285 WARNING:
> 	2010-01-27 11:34:00.285 WARNING: ***Pulse Audio is running!!!!***
> 	2010-01-27 11:34:00.285 WARNING:
> 	2010-01-27 11:34:00.285 WARNING: You have told MythTV to ignore it.
> 	2010-01-27 11:34:00.285 WARNING:
>
> Note sound is *working* fine - I just don't understand the warning...
>
> Note I have the following settings:
> 1. Environment variable:
>     		EXPERIMENTALLY_ALLOW_PULSE_AUDIO=1
> 2. Audio output device: ALSA:default
>     (same thing happens if I use: ALSA:pulse)
>    

Myth's default behavior is to disable Pulse and access ALSA directly.  
Remember that Pulse is nothing more than a sound server, and requires 
ALSA itself to access the sound hardware.  By setting that environmental 
variable, you have told MythTV to ignore pulse and leave it running.  
Pulse has been known to cause issues with MythTV for nearly all who have 
tried it, which is why it is disabled by default.  Specifically, you 
will have severe audio/video sync issues.